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The 50 MGM Films That Transformed Hollywood: Triumphs, Blockbusters, and Fiascos
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- Release Year
- 2022
- Title
- The 50 MGM Films That Transformed Hollywood: Triumphs, Blockbust
- Brand
- Lyons Press
- MPN
- 978149306700
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- ISBN
- 9781493067008
- Book Title
- 50 Mgm Films That Transformed Hollywood : Triumphs, Blockbusters, and Fiascos
- Item Length
- 10.1in
- Publisher
- Globe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Performing Arts
- Topic
- Film / History & Criticism
- Item Width
- 7.3in
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 344 Pages
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Movies don't exist in a vacuum. Each MGM movie is a tiny piece of a large, colorful (although often black-and-white) quilt, with threads tying it into all of the rest of that studio's product, going forward, yes, but also backward, and horizontally, and three-dimensionally across its entire landscape. Not necessarily a "best of" compilation, this book discusses the films that for one reason or another (and not all of them good ones) changed the trajectory of MGM and the film industry in general, from the revolutionary use of "Cinerama" in 1962's How the West Was Won to Director Alfred Hitchcock's near-extortion of the profits from the 1959 hit thriller North by Northwest. And there are the studio's on-screen self-shoutouts to its own past or stars, in films like Party Girl (1958), the That's Entertainment series, Garbo Talks (1984), Rain Man (1955), and De-Lovely (2004), or the studio's acquisition of other successful franchises such as James Bond. But fear not--what we consider MGM's classic films all get their due here, often with a touch of irony or fascinating anecdote. Singin' in the Rain (1952), for example, was in its day neither a financial blockbuster nor critically acclaimed but rather an excuse for the studio to reuse some old songs it already owned. The Wizard of Oz (1939) cost almost as much to make as Gone With the Wind (also 1939) and took ten years to recoup its costs. But still, the MGM mystique endures. Like the popular Netflix series The Movies that Made Us, this is a fascinating look behind the scenes of the greatest--and at times notorious--films ever made.
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Globe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
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1493067001
ISBN-13
9781493067008
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Book Title
50 Mgm Films That Transformed Hollywood : Triumphs, Blockbusters, and Fiascos
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Performing Arts
Number of Pages
344 Pages
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Item Length
10.1in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
7.3in
Item Weight
0 Oz
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Pn1993.5.U6b54 2022
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Movie buffs will enjoy old movie posters, lobby cards, stills, behind the scenes images and marketing material from the beginning to the end of MGM. Highly recommended for fans of classic movies, of TCM's library of movies, and film production in general.
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2022-014216
Dewey Decimal
791.43750973
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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